BACKSTORY
TB, his parents, and most of his grandparents were all born and raised in Northern Arizona. Sandstone Springs was once a booming copper mining town in the southwestern American desert, but nowadays suffers stagnation from mine shutdown...ever since the accident. Sandstone Springs declined to the status of living ghost town as mining operations ceased completely.
After dropping out of his PhD program and from university, TB returns to Sandstone Springs as he had no idea where else to go; Immediately jumping from undergraduate to a PhD program after graduation took a mental toll on him despite enjoying his research. TB quickly finds out that coming back did not help his case at all, not when all the friends he used to hang out with are now too...busy (jobs, moved away, died, in prison, etc.), and all the land is being bought up by some big corporation called Spar Corp for drilling natural resources. To pass time, TB constructed a very crude lab in his shed, where he plays "supervillain", pretending to be a mad scientist under the name Dr. Vyrux - an old stage persona of his back when TB and his friends actually played in a band - and uses his remaining grant funding to create radioactive monstrosities which he releases into the abandoned mines.
TB meets Mona after she runs her van into him on the side of the road. He was out collecting geologic samples in the area at night when she was driving down the highway. There is a huge dent in her van while TB came out of it totally fine, but he was still angry about it. With his easygoing nature, TB finds himself over it pretty quickly and would often just find Mona in her van or in town and bother her until she kicks him out. Eventually the two of them become close friends, able to closely confide with one another, but they still act like complete assholes to each other on the surface. TB absolutely adores Mona and can be found hanging out with her in her van most days.
PERSONALITY
TB is an eccentric guy currently studying for a PhD in geoscience at university. he is highly curious about the natural world, dedicating his life to research and understanding. While TB tries to be open-minded, he is also easily irritable...and the towns folk he grew up with will claim that TB can be a disrespectful menace to authority figures. Despite this, he is very sociable, always preferring the company of others. TB is often in deep thought, and can come off as inattentive, missing major details in conversation. As a creative individual, TB tends to think outside the box to solve challenging problems.
- Radioactive minerals
- Halloween
- Banana flavored candy
- Silly pranks
- Spicy and sour foods
- Sci-Fi disaster b movies
- Being alone
- Not being able to touch lava with his bare hands
- Christmas
- Ghosts
- Math
- Dry weather and textures
TRIVIA
- If TB were in a cartoon, he would be voiced by Tom Kenny.
- Singing voice claim: Brian Logan Dales (The Summer Set)
- Named for torbernite, a uranium-bearing copper phosphate mineral found in uranium deposits.
- Has two first names. His middle name is Hernando.
- Under average in height, but not super short. My characters only have relative height, not canon heights.
- Drives a teal '77 Ford Bronco and is ATV certified. He has his own he uses for driving off-road.
- Farsighted, he needs glasses to read but not to see though his left eye is weaker due to previous chemical burns. He wears them most of the time anyways.
- Has crooked teeth.
- Has skeleton ribcage tattoo in UV ink on his front and backside to scale. Glows under blacklight.
- Patch of facial hair is fake; TB cut off his own hair and glued it to his face. He wants to look like a cartoon villain so bad.
- Dark side of hair + facial hair is his natural hair color. It can be interpreted as aqua, brown, or black.
- Chronic skin picker.
- Has a very strong internal monologue.
- High endurance. Rumored to be resistant to radiation.
- Unironically a "Swiftie" though he prefers her older albums.
- Has a radioactive pet black cat named "Chernobyl".
- Studied for his PhD at a university in Oregon! He hated it and eventually transfers to a university in Arizona.
ROCK FACTS
- Torbernite forms as a secondary mineral in uranium-bearing deposits.
- Is highly radioactive (alpha emitter).
- Can decompose into Metatorbernite if it becomes dehydrated.
- Often found with Autunite.
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